In 1923, the radical socialist and feminist Clara Zetkin warned that the longer the stagnation and rot of a dysfunctional democracy went unaddressed, the more attractive fascism would become. History has amply illustrated where our current trends lead.

The Nazis marching on the streets of Poland look similar to the Nazis marching on the Spanish streets calling for "unity." The difference is this: In Spain there is no breakthrough for any anti-European party. Authoritarianism, rather, is coming from the ruling Partido Popular.

The National Security Agency's attrition rate for science, math and technology specialists is 5.6 percent, and for hackers and cyberattack specialists it is as high as 9 percent. Some teams in the NSA have lost as much as half their staff. What's going on?

Undocumented migrants who survived the June blaze were offered an amnesty period of a year provided they applied before Jan. 31, 2018, but critics say the deadline was inadequately publicized and fearful residents now might not come forward with evidence.

An amendment proposed by the House of Representatives would have added new privacy measures to section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that shored up the rights of U.S. citizens. Unfortunately that didn't happen.

Shows of military strength are not typical in the United States — and they don’t come cheap. The cost of shipping Abrams tanks and high-tech hardware to Washington could run in the millions, and military officials said it was unclear how they would pay for it.

On Thursday, the Polish Senate agreed to pass new legislation that would impose heavy fines and up to 3 years in prison for anyone who openly associates the complicity of Polish citizens or the Polish state with Nazi Germany during the Holocaust.

The UN asserts that mercenarism is against international humanitarian law, but this hardly seems to matter. By exploiting legal loopholes along with some creative lawyering, the modern mercenary now operates with impunity.

The extremist “Citizens of the Reich” is a cluster of German and Austrian fringe movements that refuse to recognize German borders after 1937, when Adolf Hitler secured territories that Germany had lost in World War I.

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"POTUS" is an acronym political journalists frequently use when talking about the President of the United States. However, "POTUS" seems a woefully soft and inadequate word to describe the current occupant of the Oval Office.